keech
See also: Keech
English
editEtymology
editCompare dialectal English keech (“cake”), perhaps ultimately a back-formation from Middle English kechel (“small cake”).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /kiːt͡ʃ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editkeech (plural keeches)
- (obsolete) A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.
- 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- I wonder
That such a keech can with his very bulk
Take up the rays o' th' beneficial sun,
And keep it from the earth.
- 1889, Heywood Walter Seton-Karr, Ten Years' Wild Sports in Foreign Lands: Or, Travels in the Eighties:
- I observed them [natives of British Columbia] on another occasion content with merely warming keeches of raw and solid flesh under their naked armpits.
References
edit- “keech”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
editScots
editNoun
editkeech (uncountable)
- Alternative spelling of kich
References
edit- “keech” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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